Portal Catholic News Agency (CNA) reports on November 5, 2025, regarding a Symposium on Young American Men hosted by the conciliar pseudo-Knights of Columbus at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly claimed young men are “lost” due to fatherless homes and digital addiction, proposing “friendship” and “community” as solutions alongside U.S. senators from both major parties. The article omits all reference to the primacy of grace, the true Holy Sacrifice, and the Social Reign of Christ the King, offering instead a naturalistic program indistinguishable from secular humanism.
Naturalism Disguised as Charity
The symposium’s stated goal of combating loneliness through “purpose and mission” constitutes a fundamental betrayal of Catholic ecclesiology. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas (1925) establishes that “nations will be happy… only when the commandments of God and His holy Church are observed” (#19). Yet Kelly’s proposal reduces the Church’s mission to therapeutic community-building, mirroring the condemned modernist error that “faith is merely sentiment” (Lamentabili sane exitu, #25). The article’s celebration of bipartisan political involvement (“Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma; Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona”) confirms the abandonment of regnum Christi in favor of Americanist pluralism – a heresy already denounced by Leo XIII in Testem benevolentiae (1899).
“We are hardwired as men for purpose and mission… friendship is the key. Christ did his ministry through friendships… he assembled 12 friends, imperfect people.”
This blasphemous reduction of Our Lord’s Apostolic College to a self-help group exemplifies the neo-church’s systematic desacralization of Holy Orders. The Council of Trent (Session XXIII, Canon VII) anathematizes those who claim the priesthood is “not truly a sacrament instituted by Christ.” By omitting the sacramental foundation of male vocation – whether to priesthood, marriage, or consecrated life – the pseudo-Knights propagate the very fatherlessness they pretend to lament.
Silence on Sacramental Reality
The article’s emphasis on “ritual” attracting youth constitutes a demonic parody of true worship. Sacrosanctum Concilium (1963) is referenced in spirit though not by name when Kelly claims “young men are drawn to ritual” as part of a “swing back… toward tradition.” This calculated ambiguity avoids mentioning the Traditional Latin Mass – the only ritually intact form of Catholic worship – while tacitly endorsing the invalid Novus Ordo rite. The Syllabus of Errors condemns precisely this sleight-of-hand in Proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can… reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.”
Most grievously, the article omits any warning against sacrilegious participation in conciliar “sacraments.” As Pius XII established in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), validity requires proper matter, form, and intention – criteria systematically violated in post-conciliar rites. To propose “community” without addressing this vacuum ordinis constitutes pastoral malpractice of apocalyptic proportions.
Ecumenism of Apostasy
The symposium’s interfaith implications emerge through the inclusion of non-Catholic leaders and its deliberate avoidance of conversion language. Kelly’s statement that “a man’s ultimate meaning comes from his personal relationship with others and with God” echoes the indifferentism condemned in Mortalium animos (1928): “This fond idea… results in the neglect of external religion” (#7). The Syllabus Proposition 17 explicitly rejects the notion that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.”
Conclusion: Wolves in Knights’ Clothing
This symposium exemplifies the conciliar sect’s modus operandi: exploit legitimate social crises to advance anti-Catholic agendas. By substituting psychological bromides for sacramental grace and political networking for evangelization, the pseudo-Knights fulfill Pius X’s warning in Pascendi dominici gregis (#3): “They are found in the ranks of the priesthood… wearing the mask of virtue.” Until young men are directed to true priests offering the Immemorial Mass – not community organizers in knightly regalia – this “epidemic of loneliness” will only metastasize into eternal solitude.
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Amid loneliness crisis, ‘men need a mission,’ Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly says (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 05.11.2025